He has more than 20 years of experience in molecular biology research. His research interest includes retinal circadian biology as well as ocular microRNA. He is interested in characterizing microRNA molecules and investigating their role in the expression of genes related to ocular diseases like age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinal vascular diseases. He is a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.

Vision and Ophthalmology

Dr. Shlomo was born in 1950 in the region of Transylvania, Romania. He Graduated from the Hebrew University – Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel in 1974. In 1985 he finished his residency in Ophthalmology, and in 1990 a fellowship in Neuro-Ophthalmology at the University of Michigan in Ann-Arbor, MI, USA. For the last twenty-five years is the head of the Neuro-Ophthalmology service at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. In addition to his longstanding clinical work, he has collaborated internationally with several medical services in research studies, wrote few chapters in medical textbooks, co-authored almost forty articles published in the international medical literature, lectured in many Ophthalmology & Neuro-Ophthalmology conferences and organized tens of courses along the years in Neuro-Ophthalmology in various meetings.

Neuro-Ophthalmology

She is currently working as Senior consultant optometrist in Chennai. She acted as in-charge for interns (Final year B.S Optometry students. She has been a FACULTY for Low vision aids, Visual Optics, Geriatric Optometry, and Pediatric Optometry. Dr.Ambika won prize for Best Performance in Low Vision Aids at SANKARA NARAYANAN.

Low vision aids

Dr. Amel Meddeb Ouertani is Professor of Ophthalmology, graduated from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. Her clinical interests include cornea and glaucoma. She served as head of the Ophthalmic Department at Charles Nicolle University Hospital. She established twinning programs with Pretoria, Alexandria and Nagasaki Universities and served as member of the Pan Arab Board of Specializations. She trained hundreds of Tunisian residents and African colleagues. She is former President of the Tunisian Ophthalmological Society, Founding President of the Tunisian Society of Aerospace Medicine and the African Society of Glaucoma. She served as member of the Advisory Board of ICO and the Global Outreach committee of the AAO. She also served as Tunisian national coordinator for prevention of blindness As general Secretary of “Nadi Al Bassar”, a leading NGO in the region, she has participated in many eye camps and developed a clear understanding of Eye health status in Africa. She is currently executive Vice-President of the Middle East African Council of Ophthalmology; Secretary General of the Middle East African Glaucoma Society and International Coordinator for Glaucoma at the WOC. Dr Ouertani received several national and regional awards.

Cornea and Glaucoma

Janardan Kumar, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology at Becker College in the United States, started his schooling at home under a tree in a small village named Rajapakar in the state of Bihar, India. His esteemed teachers, the late Sri Raghunath Prasad and Dr. Udai Narain, were real mentors who prepared him to become a confident go-getter in the fierce pursuit of his dreams. In the United States he received post-doctoral training in glaucoma at Duke University Eye Center, North Carolina, a nationally renowned eye research laboratory, under the supervision of Dr. David L. Epstein. Dr. Kumar’s approach to ex-vivo perfusion studies showed, for the first time in the history of glaucoma research, that thrombin may be involved in the pathophysiology of glaucoma; he presented those findings at ARVO in 1999. The study of glaucoma is the most humbling of disciplines – closely associated with both clinical failure and lack of understanding, yet due to Dr. Kumar’s exceptionally strong work ethic and innate scientific vision, Dr. Epstein always referred to him as a potential “superstar.” Dr. Kumar’s main objective in his involvement with the prestigious OMICS eye conferences is to bring eye clinicians and scientists together in order to further advance glaucoma research globally.

Glaucoma

Dr Sergey Cusato has the title of Master of Vision Sciences of La Salle University (2015) with clinical practice in the areas of Primary Care and Contact Lenses at the University Nova Southeastern University United States (September 2012). He has taken his Degree in Optometry from University of Contested Brazil (UNC) in 2008. He is a Director and Researcher Fellow of the Brazilian Institute for Training and Contact Lenses Research (FIBTPLC). He is also the Professor of Contact Lens at Master's (UPA) Universidad Autónoma del Paraguay. He is the member of societies and associations like British Contact Lens Association (BCLA), Contact Lens Society of America (CLSA), Orthokeratology Academy of America (AAOMC ) and Latin American Academy of Orthokeratology and Control of Myopia (ALOCM) and Fellow of the International Association of Contact Lenses Educators (FIACLE).

Primary Care and Contact Lenses

After undergraduate studies at Guys Hospital Medical School, Dr. Alan Bird completed junior posts in general Medicine, Surgery and Neurosurgery. After a residency in Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital he worked as Senior Registrar at The London Hospital and The Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square. This was followed by a Fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute with Dr. Lawton Smith and a brief period with Dr Hoyt in San Francisco. On returning to in 1969 London Alan Bird was appointed to the Institute of Ophthalmology as Lecturer, and subsequently Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor, and Consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He changed his main interests from neuro-ophthalmology to retina, and a specialised clinical service was established. This was aided by the conversion of clinical activity in Moorfields Eye Hospital to specialised Services, and the Medical Retinal Service now holds 34 clinics each week, and has 12 Consultants. Over the years a productive multidisciplinary research team developed for the investigation of monogenic retinal disorders and age-related macular disease. Investigative techniques included molecular genetics, electrophysiology, psychophysics, specialised imaging and morphology. Establishment of research programmes was aided by the successful development of the Institute of Ophthalmology, which became a School of University College, London. In order to contribute fully to research, he spent a sabbatical period with Dr Dean Bok at UCLA in 1985. On October 1st 2005 Dr Bird retired from full time clinical practice and was appointed Emeritus Professor at London University and Honorary Consultant, Moorfields Eye Hospital so that research and teaching can be continued. Alan C Bird has completed his junior posts in general Medicine, Surgery and Neurosurgery. After a residency in Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital he worked as Senior Registrar at The London Hospital and The Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square. This was followed by a Fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute with Dr. Lawton Smith and a brief period with Dr Hoyt in San Francisco.

Boris Malyugin Prof. Boris Malyugin is the Deputy Director General (R&D, Edu) of the S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Institution (Moscow, Russia). Dr. Malyugin is a world-renowned authority and expert in the field of modern ophthalmic surgery. He has established himself at the forefront of advanced cataract and anterior segment surgery by pioneering numerous techniques and technologies in the field of ophthalmology. He is well known for his educational activities all over the world. He is having multiple international awards and was invited to present lectures and live surgery sessions in numerous national and supranational meetings. Dr. Malyugin is a President of the Russian Ophthalmology Society (ROS), ESCRS Board member, as well as the member of International Intraocular Implant Club and Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, AAO, ASCRS. Dr. Malyugin has published in the literature extensively, co-edited several books in different fields of ophthalmology, and contributed to the printed and video atlases of ophthalmic surgery and video Journal of cataract and refractive surgery.

cataract and anterior segment surgery

Ildikó Süveges MD, PhD, DSc is professor emeritus of ophthalmology. She took her first degree from the Medical University of Debrecen, Hungary. In 1984 she was appointed as the head of the eye clinic of the Medical University of Szeged. From 1992 to 2004 she served as head of the 1st Ophthalmology Department of Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, where she is professor emeritus at present. Her scientific activity is concerned with corneal diseases, the subject of her academic (DSc) dissertation. The number of her publications is 252. Formerly she was the representative of Hungary in several international ophthalmological associations. She was the organising manager and president of the XIth SOE Congress in 1997. A founder member of EAO (Chair XVI) and elected member of AOI (Chair LVII). She is the author of the textbook ’Ophthalmology’ whose 4. edition appeared in 2015. She holds several international and Hungarian awards, including the „Cross of Honour” decoration of the Republic of Hungary given by the Head of State and the Semmelweis Prize given by the Hungarian Ministry of Welfare.

Corneal Diseases

Prof. MICHELE VETRUGNO got his degree during the 1986-87 Academic Year with full marks and honour, and a dissertation in Ophthalmology Clinics the title of which was “Visual evoked Potential and Oscillatory Potential in headache”. During his University years he won a scholarship from E.N.P.A.L.S. He got his diploma to practice the medical profession at the Università degli Studi in Bari in the April 1987 Session. He specialised in Ophthalmology in 1992 with full marks and honours and a dissertation entitled “Capsular cataract extraction with H.S.M. IOL implant in a hemo-dyalised patient”. On June 24, 1995 he got the the Diploma of the European Board of Ophthalmology in Milano. During the 1990-91 Academic years to now, he co-operated with his Teacher in lectures and practice with the students of the 5th course year, and with tutorial activity for dissertations for the Degree in Medicine and Surgery and for specialisation in Ophthalmology. Additionally he performs an integrating didactic activity in the “Eye Surgery Course”, with monthly attendance, since the 1994-95 Academic Year. From 2002 till today he is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Head of Glaucoma Research Centre of Eye Clinic – University of Bari, Italy. He is author or Co-author of 200 publications, both in Italian and International Journals (55 publications in PUBMED).

Eye Surgery

Francesco Bandello is Full Professor and Chairman at the Department of Ophthalmology at University Vita-Salute, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. He is Academic Dean of “Corso di Laurea Specialistica/Magistrale in Medicina e Chirurgia” at the same University. Professor Bandello is Past President of EURETINA, President of Academia Ophthalmologica Europea and Vice-President of EuroLam. Prof. Bandello is Co-Editor of the European Journal of Ophthalmology and former board member of the Club Jules Gonin and Macula Society. He is member of Executive Board of ESASO Foundation (European School for Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology), member of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis and the Accademia Nazionale di Medicina. Prof. Bandello is co-author of 10 books and he serves as a peer reviewer for grant applications for the NEI. He has authored or co-authored 339 articles and he served as trained Principal Investigator in several clinical trials performed following ICH/GCP and mainly concerning retinal diseases.

Retina Disease

Emanuel Rosen MD is Co-Editor, Journal of Cataract and refractive surgery, Past President ESCRS & IIIC, Authors of six textbooks of ophthalmology including fluorescence photography of the eye 1969 and intraocular lens implantation 1979. He has qualification from Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, FRC Ophth, (1993). He is section editor on lens in Duker textbook of ophthalmology and Co-editor lens section Albert & Jacobiek ‘Ophthalmology’, Chairman and founder of Euro Times. He is visiting professor of Ophthalmology at university of Manchester, Dept. of Vision Science. He is one of the leading and respected ophthalmologists from Europe.

Prof. Dr. Luis Emilio Abad has completed his Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Bircham International University, Spain and also did Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Bircham International University, Spain followed by Diploma in Ophthalmology (DO) from Dr. Nano Eye Clinics, Argentina and Doctor in Medicine (MD), Faculty of Medicine from National University of Córdoba, Argentina. He is Dean and Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology at Ballsbridge University, Dominica and President of International Research Group, Abad Eye Research, Dominica He is also the Honourable global member council of the Board of Quality Standards, UK. He is also awarded with many awards like Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), International Philosophical Institute, Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) in Medical Research, Maha Sastra University, Cambodia and many more awards. He is the authors of many books few are Practical Manual of Ophthalmology, Revinter, The Vitreous Behavior of stem cells in eyes with chorioretinal injuries and Retinal Vasculopathy, Glosa, Spain .

Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Ocular Research

Mahmoud Mohamed Ismail has completed his Ph.D. in Ophthalmology from University of Alicante, Spain during December 1996 and master degree in Ophthalmology and Ocular Surgery from University of AL-Azhar in 1989 followed by Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery from same university. He is the Professor of Ophthalmology and Head of Cornea & Refractive surgery unit at University of AL-Azhar, Egypt. Mahmoud Mohamed Ismail also awarded with many prizes during his academia. He has published many papers in reputed journals and also participated in various national and international conferences.

Cosimo Mazzotta Graduated from School of Medicine of University of Siena, Italy, Medical Doctor in 1997. He had a Specialist Diploma in Ophthalmology in 2001 and received his PhD in Ocular Pathology in 2006. He introduced the Corneal Cross Linking in Italy in 2004 being awarded by the Italian Society of Ophthalmology. In 2009 Assistant Professor of Corneal Surgery at Optometry School of University of Siena, Italy. Currently he is Assistant Professor of Corneal Pathology and Surgery at Post-Graduate Ophthalmology School of Siena University and Director of the Siena International Crosslinking Center. His areas of interest include corneal cross-linking, keratoconus, corneal transplants, corneal dystrophies, cataract and refractive surgery, in vivo confocal microscopy.

corneal cross-linking, keratoconus, corneal transplants, corneal dystrophies, cataract and refractive surgery, in vivo confocal microscopy.

Ronni M Lieberman has received her Medical training at SUNY Downstate in New York, where she also completed her Ophthalmology Residency. She then went on to complete a 2 year Surgical Retina Fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. She is the Director of Medical Retina Services for the Queens Hospital Network, an HHC affiliate. She has published extensively, participated in clinical trials and is involved in the training of ophthalmology residents in the HHC and at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Retina

Irina Trifanenkova has completed his PhD at the age of 45 years from «MNTK «Eye Microsurgery» named after acad. S.N. Fedorov». She is the Deputy Director on scientific work in Kaluga branch of FGAU «MNTK «Eye Microsurgery» named after acad. S.N. Fedorov», a leading eye microsurgery clinic in Russia. She has published more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

ROP

Anna Laura Giacomin has completed her Medical degree in 1986 at the Padua University. She has joined as the Ophthalmological Specialist at the Padua University in 1991. In 1996, she joined in the Ophthalmology Unit of the Camposampiero PD Civil Hospital, responsible for the Ophthalmoplastic Service. She has obtained Homeopathy clinic course and in 2011, Master 2° level in Ophthalmoplastic Surgery from Naples Federico II University. From 2005, she is a full Member of the European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

eyelid disorders

Samantha Harding was a Chemist, Polymer Scientist and Journalist before entering medicine. She was a Resident and Fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London where she developed her interest in pediatric ophthalmology. She was the first in the history of the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus to win best of show twice as first author for posters in 2008 and 2011 and was the first to publish a series of pediatric deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty cases with Ken Nischal. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

Strabismus and Neurology

Pedro Mattar M.D. Consultant at the Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Division at King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital in Saudi Arabia. Education: Paediatric Ophthalmology Fellow at University of Colorado, Denver, USA. Ophthalmology: A.V.A.O. Venezuela. Medicine: Universidad Central de Venezuela. Associations: American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Venezuelan Society Ophthalmology, Pan American Association of Ophthalmology, Latin-American Pediatric Ophthalmology Society and Pan American Society of Retinopathy of Prematurity.

Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus

Daniel Valverde is currently working as a Faculty of Medical Sciences at University of Guayaquil. He is a Specialist in Retina Medicinal, Ocular Nutrition, Low Vision, Pediatric Vision, Public Health and Community Development Projects in Public Health.

Low Vision, Pediatric Vision and Retina

She holds a degree in Medicine from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of State University of Campinas - BR (1985), master's degree in Medicine by Faculty of Medical Sciences of the State University of Campinas -BR(1997) and PhD in Medicine from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the State University of Campinas –BR (2001). She is currently a State University of Campinas, a founding member and the Brazilian Cornea and Eye Bank. Medical assistant of the discipline of ophthalmology of the Clinical Hospital of the State University of Campinas (CH Unicamp) Chief sector of cornea and external diseases of the ophthalmology discipline of CH Unicamp Physician responsible for corneal transplant team of the CH Unicamp

Ophthalmology, cataract, cornea and external diseases, prevention of blindness.

Choun-Ki Joo MD, PhD is a Prof. of department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea. He completed research fellowship (1992~1994) of cornea and external disease for 2 years at Washington University in USA after finishing residency training (1988) in Korea. Prof Joo has a reputation for his basic and clinical knowledge in the field of cornea/external disease and refractive surgery. He is a frequent invited lecturer at international meetings, and over the past five years has directed one of the most prestigious training programs for specialists in refractive surgery. Prof Joo is the author of many articles in basic and clinical science. Prof Joo is the Director of Laboratory for Ophthalmology & Visual Science. Prof Joo has attracted much attention for his dedication to his patients and helping those in need.

Corneal transplantation, Refractive surgery and Cataract surgery

Chief of the refractive surgery department of ophthalmology clinic «Sokol». MD 1994 -2000 S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Ophthalmologist with more than 12 years of career experience and over 6 000 laser surgeries performed. Practice includes extensive experience in different kinds of laser vision correction including LASIK, Femto LASIK, PRK, PTK ,laser treatment of glaucoma, secondary cataract etc. The observership with Dr. Allan Slomovic and Dr. David Rootman specializing in Cornea in the Department of Ophthalmology at Toronto Western Hospital and Toronto laser center, Canada(February 2016,Canada). My interests lie in refractive surgery, keratoconus treatment and corneal transplantation.

refractive surgery, keratoconus treatment and corneal transplantation.

Sergio Ozan completed his studies from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an optician and contact lens specialist and having enriched experience in the manufacturing of ocular prosthesis. Dr. Sergio is also associated with scientific societies and currently he is a scientific advisor for ocular prosthesis in APO (Association Professional de Optometras in Argentina). He is the precursor and creator of multi-perforated orbital implants i.e. JUMAT, first prosthetic sclera lens and expander of orbit osmotic hydrogel filling for microphthalmia. He is the director of CEPROC along with Ocular Prosthesis Division in Perfect Vision, Santiago, Chile. Dr. Sergio Ozan also developed the one hour customized ocular prosthesis method which is unique in Latin America.

Contact Lenses, Ocular Prosthesis

Ioannis Pallikaris received his medical degree at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1972) and completed his residency and PhD thesis at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (1981). During these years, he also completed graduate studies at the University of Munich (Institute of Physiological Optic, 1978), at the University of Vienna (Ultrasound in Ophthalmology, 1979), and at the University of Zurich (Department of microvascular surgery, 1980). Subsequently, he received an honorary consultant position at the Hippocration Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece (1981-1986), and became Director of the Ophthalmology Clinic Hospital of Chania, Greece (1986-1988). He became an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the School of Medicine, University of Crete in 1988 and has been a Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Crete since 1996. Over the course of the years at the University of Crete, he became the founder and director of the Vardinoyannion Eye Institute of Crete (VEIC, 1989) and Institute of Vision and Optics (IVO, 2005), chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Crete, and the director of the Eye Clinic of the University Hospital of Heraklion, Greece (1996-2004). Ioannis Pallikaris was the rector of the University of Crete from 2004 to 2011, while he is also a Board member of ESCRS from 2011.

refractive surgery, visual optics, medical lasers, biopolymers, retinal surgery and image analysis, and the design and development of microsurgical instrumentation.

Dr. Uyar graduated from Hacettepe University Medical School in 1987 and completed his specialization in Ophthalmology at Istanbul Educational and Research Hospital in 1991 and worked there until 2012. His practice and experience is especially in surgical retina, medical retina, ocular trauma, cataract refractive surgery, lasers and medicolegal ophthalmology. In addition to his associate professorship, he has FEBO and FICO titles. He has been working at his own office since 1996 and at the Ophthalmology Clinic of Maltepe University since 2013. Dr. Uyar is member of both some national and international ophthalmological associations and societies.

Surgical retina, medical retina, ocular trauma, cataract refractive surgery, lasers and medicolegal ophthalmology

Dr. Pavel Kuchynka is the Chairman of Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty of Charles University and of Institute for Postgradual Medical Education Prague from 1991 to ptresent. He completed his Ophthalmology Speciality Certification in 1982 from Medical School, Charles University. Now he is also the director of Medical Director of the International Eye Bank, Prague. Presently he is the president of Czech Society of Ophthalmology and Czech Society of Refractive and Cataract Surgery. He is also being the member of International societies and editorials boards like member of the International Committee of the "American Academy of Ophthalmology" - AAO, member of "European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons" – ESCRS, member of the „International Intra-Ocular Implant Club. He is awarded as honorary council member of European Society of Ophthalmology. He is in Editorial member of Ocular Surgery News and Ophthalmology times.

Ocular Surgery

Dr Sergey Cusato has the title of Master of Vision Sciences of La Salle University (2015) with clinical practice in the areas of Primary Care and Contact Lenses at the University Nova Southeastern University United States (September 2012). He has taken his Degree in Optometry from University of Contested Brazil (UNC) in 2008. He is a Director and Researcher Fellow of the Brazilian Institute for Training and Contact Lenses Research (FIBTPLC). He is also the Professor of Contact Lens at Master's (UPA) Universidad Autónoma del Paraguay. He is the member of societies and associations like British Contact Lens Association (BCLA), Contact Lens Society of America (CLSA), Orthokeratology Academy of America (AAOMC ) and Latin American Academy of Orthokeratology and Control of Myopia (ALOCM) and Fellow of the International Association of Contact Lenses Educators (FIACLE).

Primary Care and Contact Lenses

Dr. Fox was a Merit Scholar and an Honors graduate from Colgate University. He received his medical degree at Hahnemann Medical College where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He is the Chief of Refractive Surgery at the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Practice of New York as well as Clarity/TLC Refractive Services in West Orange New Jersey, Dr. Fox cares for patients throughout the metropolitan area for the full spectrum of refractive procedures as well as those seeking care for cornea and external disease issues. With over 20 years of experience in the field, he is widely regarded as a national leader in corneal and refractive surgery. He has performed over 30,000 laser vision correction procedures over the last 15 years.

Cornea and Refractive Surgery

Optician, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Specialist in Contact Lenses. Specialist and manufacturer of ocular prosthesis. Scientific adviser for ocular prosthesis in APO (Asociación Profesional de Optómetras in Argentina). Precursor and creator of multiperforated orbital implant, JUMAT. Precursor and creator of expander orbit asmotic hydrogel filling for microophthalmia. Director of CEPROC. Director of Ocular Prosthesis Division in Perfect Vision, Santiago, Chile. Developer of one-hour customized ocular prosthesis method, unique in Latinamerica. Precursor and creator of the first prosthetic scleral lens.

prosthetic lens

He is the Ex-President of the Mexican Cornea Society (CMCCR), He is currently the member of Member of the Mexican Ophthalmology Society (SMO), Assoiciation of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO. He is a ophthalmologist at APEC Hospital

Cornea & Refractive Surgery

He is the Secretary Centro Mexicano de Cirujanos de Catarata at CMCC. He was also associated as an Associate Researcher at the Department of Biomedical Research at Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. He was even the Director, Anterior Segment Surgery Service at Instituto Mexicano de Oftalmología I.A.P. He has completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Medical Research, 2011 - 2015 Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro and Master of Science, Medical Sciences, Biomedicine, 2009 - 2011 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Anterior segment surgery Fellowship, Cataract phacoemulsification surgery, 2006 - 2007

cataract, cataract surgery

Dr. Ticho Uriel is the Emmeritus asc.proffesor of Ophthalmology. He is the Head of glaucoma service at Hadasssah for 30 years. He is also the Chairman of International Glaucoma Conferences in Jerusalem.

His research interests includes the use of anti-metabolites in glaucoma surgery, Glaucoma: laser applications in glaucoma anti- glaucoma drugs; glaucoma detection and prevention Automatic visual field studies to evaluate blue stimuli, threshold modulation and other parameters.

Master Luis Carlos Fliguer is perhaps one of the most prominent in the world eye care. His contributions to the Latin American contactology are invaluable. He has always been at the forefront of new technologies in materials and designs in parameters and their professional opinion always was reference in lot of research.

His research interest involves Dyslexia - phoria in vision- Syndrome computerized vision - Vision behavioral.

He is experienced eye-care business professional into Optical / Ophthalmology and Optometry industry channels in Latin America with twenty-six years of clinical, academic and business experience.

Contact lenses.

Dr. Hugo Quiroz-Mercado is a Former Director of Ophthalmology Service at Denver Health Medical Center. He was also Professor of ophthalmology at University of Colorado, School of Medicine ophthalmologist specializing in diabetic retinopathy and retinopathy prematurity as, and his current position is as Research Director at Asociación para Evitar la Ceguera en Mexico. Dr. Mercado completed his medical degree at Faculty of Medicine Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, and completed his postgraduate residency at Luis Sanchez Hospital for the Prevention of Blindness in Mexico City. Dr. Mercado then furthered did a fellowships in Vitreo-Retinal Diseases at APEC in Mexico City and Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston. With over 25 years of practice experience, Dr. Mercado has held previous appointments as the Chief of Retina Service and Chief of the Experimental Surgery Laboratory at the Prevention of Blindness, Luis Sanchez Hospital, as well as a professor of Ophthalmology at the Faculty of Medicine Universidad Autonoma de Mexico. He specializes in treating patients with retina diseases.

His research interest include External radiotherapy and anti-angiogenic therapy for the treatment of AMD. Artificial Vision by Direct Optic Nerve Stimulation (AV-DONE) in blind patients with retinitis pigmentosa in collaboration with Osaka University and University of Colorado with surgeries being performed in Mexico City at the Hospital APEC. Vitreous Liquifaction and Vitreolysis from the Cal Tech and Vitreoretinal Technologies (VRT) from Irvine CA. With clinical studies underway in Mexico and other sites in the United States. DRCRNet. – Diabetic Retinopathy Collaborative Research network PACORES – Pan-American Collaborative Retina Research

He is the PROFESSOR at Universidad Nacional de Rosario (National University of Rosario), School of Medicine, Ophthalmology College and PROFESSOR at Universidad Abierta Interamericana, School of Medicine, Ophthalmology College. He has also been the EX-PRESIDENT of the Ophthalmology Society of Rosario. He is the Member of CONEAU: National Committee for the Evaluation of University Quality. Member of the Course Board in the XXIII PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY. PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE ARGENTINE COUNCIL OF OPHTALMOLOGY. He is also considered as CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE BEST VITRORETINAL SURGERY SERVICES IN THE COUNTRY He has been awarded as "DISTINGUISHED PHYSICIAN FROM ROSARIO", awarded by the Honorable City Council of Rosario. Decree N° 25132 Rosario, February 17th 2005 and many more.

ocular stem cells

Dr. Paul Lee serves as F. Bruce Fralick Professor and Chair in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Michigan Medical School and Director of the W.K. Kellogg Eye Center.Dr. Lee has published over 250 papers on glaucoma and eye care delivery in general, particularly on understanding and improving eye and health care. He has been principal investigator on research projects to evaluate the appropriateness of cataract surgery, the quality of glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy care, utilization patterns of eye care, provider workforce analyses for ophthalmology and orthopedics, and analyses of failure patterns for the treatment of diabetes related eye disease and glaucoma. r. Lee has served in several leadership capacities, including as the chair of the ARVO Foundation, an at-large member of the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), chair of the American Glaucoma Society’s Quality of Care Subcommittee, and original co-chair of the AMA-AAO Consortium Task Force for Eye Care Quality Indicators (PQRI). He has received the Lew Wasserman Merit Award from Research to Prevent Blindness, the Alcon Institute Research Award, the Senior Achievement Award from the AAO, the Gold Fellow from ARVO, and has been inducted into Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis. He has also delivered the American Glaucoma Society Lecture, the Parker-Heath Lecture of the AMA section of ophthalmology, and the Shaffer Lecture at the American Academy of Ophthalmology, as well as numerous lectureships around the world.

Evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma; glaucoma surgery complications; complex glaucoma surgeries

Elisha Bartov M.D, Chairman of Department of Ophthalmology in the Edith Wolfson Medical Center and Associate Clinical professor in the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of the Tel Aviv University, Israel. . His residency and retina surgery fellowship were in the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer and he was for two years a Fulbright and Jules Stein Research and Clinical fellow at the Wilmer institute, Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Club Jules Gonin International Retina Association. He published 77 scientific papers on basic, clinical and surgical topics in Ophthalmology.

Retina surgery

Avinoam Ophir completed his medical studies and Residency in Hadassah Medical Center in Israel. During his Retina fellowship in Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, he together with another young doctor, Mark Blumenkranz, introduced the antimetabolites, primarily 5-FU, to the ophthalmology world, in order to treat non-malignant proliferating cells, especially in the prevention of postoperative scarring. Due to 5-FU efficacy in trabeculectomy, Dr. Ophir moved to specialize also in glaucoma. He explained the mechanism of MMC on bleb toxicity and how to prevent it, and also introduced the "mini-trabeculectomy" approach without radial incisions. Meanwhile he and his team found that Zn-Desferal in the cat substantially inhibited reperfusion injury following CRAO. He was appointed as chairman in the department of Ophthalmology in Hadera in 1993, associated with the Technion School of Medicine. For the last 4 years he works at the retina unit in Wolfson MC

Retina and Glaucoma

Gail completed her PhD from the University of Melbourne, Center for Eye Research Australia. She has worked with international humanitarian programs for more than 25 years. Her recent experience was focused in Pakistan, Cambodia and Vietnam. She is interested in addressing issues of quality and the barriers associated with accessing eye health care to decrease the impact of avoidable blindness.

Eye health care

M. Roy Wilson, M.D., M.S., was unanimously elected President of Wayne State University by the Board of Governors on June 5, 2013. He assumed the presidency on August 1, 2013.ChairPrior to joining Wayne State, Dr. Wilson served as deputy director for strategic scientific planning and program coordination at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Glaucoma,Ocular Hypertension treatment

Dr. Satya Prakash Singh completed his postgraduation from M.L.N medical college Allahabad, currently he is Director and Professor Department of Ophthalmology R.I.O. Allahabad India and Principal M.L.N Medical college Allahabad. His name is endorsed in the prestigious “Limca book of records 2002” for performing maximum number of surgeries in a day. He has been awarded “Best Eye Surgeon” in state in the year 2005. He was also Editor- in chief - Journal SPOSI 2013-2014. He has 118 research papers in national and international journals and invited as a guest speaker in various national and International conferences.

Cataract and Refractive Surgery

For over 20 years Mr Chitkara has established a reputation as one of the leading expert in Refractive or Corrective Eye surgery in UK and Internationally. Graduate of Manchester University Medical School in 1983 – MBChB with Honours in Physiology and Biochemistry Trained as an Eye surgeon in Manchester and North East England passing his specialist post-graduate exams and became a fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologist (FRCOphth) in 1993. He developed a passion for corrective (refractive) eye surgery during his specialist training in Cornea and Refractive Surgery in USA. The fellowship was completed with distinction under Professor Marguerite McDonald in New Orleans in 1995. Prof McDonald is the first person in the world to perform Laser eye surgery and a world renowned authority in Corneal and Laser Eye surgery.

Corneal and Laser Eye surgery

Dr.Milan IZÁK is the former Head II of eye clinics Slovak Medical University Hospital FD Roosevelt in Banska Bystrica. He is an internationally recognized authority in the field of ophthalmology. He is the member of many prestigious international medical organizations. He is the member of the editorial boards of several international peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is the pioneer and inventor of many new diagnostic and therapeutic, in particular microsurgical techniques in Slovakia and Czechoslovakia.

Ophthalmology, Cataract

Born in Brescia in 1959 and lives in Lugano. A student of medicine and music, he obtained his diploma in piano at the Brescia Conservatoire. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the State University of Milan, where he went on to specialise in ophthalmology. He studied orchestra conducting under Seiji Ozawa at the Tanglewood Music Center in Boston, and for 23 years until 2013 he was a lecturer in score reading at the Trento Conservatoire. He trained in refractive surgery with Dr Michael Gordon at the Vision Surgery Laser Center in San Diego, the United States (currently the Gordon-Weiss-Schanzlin Vision Institute). In 2013 he undertook a new project in the Canton of Ticino, SERI Switzerland Eye Research Institute in Lugano, an eye surgery and ophthalmology research institute and care centre for visual defects and all kinds of eye diseases. Until 2014, he was a lecturer in corneal pathology and refractive surgery techniques at the ESASO, European School for Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology in Lugano. An ophthalmology and eye surgery specialist with the FMH (Swiss Medical Association), he has pioneered leading-edge surgery and innovation in ophthalmology, including P-Curve for presbyopia correction, osmotic transepithelial corneal cross-linking for the treatment of keratoconus, and the ParaCel eyewash. He was invited to join the exclusive International Intra-Ocular Implant Club (IIIC) for surgeons founded by Sir Harold Ridley. In 2009-10, in view of his groundbreaking research activity in the field of refractive surgery and the science of vision, he was invited to join the executive committee of the world’s most prominent ophthalmology association, the American Academy of Ophthalmology (ISRS/AAO). Currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Biosyntrx (Colorado Springs, Colorado), a biotech company operating in the field of ophthalmology, and the Medical Advisory Board of Avedro (Waltham, Massachusetts), a leading company in the calibration of instruments and devices for eye pathologies.

Corneal cross-linking

Joan Prat has completed studies in Medicine (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and Ophthalmology in 1991 when he was 29 years old. From 1991 to 2002 works in orbital diseases in Bellvitge Hospital (Barcelona) and after that became the Head of Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology in Hospital Sant Joan de Déu de Barcelona until today. Dr. Prat has innovated in eyetracking both in research and development of medical devices for pediatric use and had been doing conferences in WCPOS and EPOS related with. Nowadays is Director of Master’s degree in Pediatric Ophthalmology in Barcelona University and President of Spanish Society of Ocular and Orbital Plastic Surgery.

Pediatric Ophthalmology

Felipe Soria studied Medicine in the Adventist University in Argentina and did his specialty in Ophthalmology in the Vision Institute of Montemorelos University in Mexico. He made the subspecialties of Cornea, Refractive and Cataract surgery in Vissum Corporation with Dr. Jorge Alio for a period of two years. He has written more than 30 scientific articles and book chapters, being Editor of the book Femtosecond Laser Assisted Keratoplasty. He has participated with 40 communications in different international congress across the world. He owns the patent: Use of Mesothelial cells in Tissue Bioengineering and Artificial Tissues. Interview for EyeWorld TV: http://ewreplay.org/node/555?v=3784727216001

Cornea, Refractive and Cataract surgery

He has completed his MBBCh from Cairo University of Egypt. He finished his Master degree in Ophthalmology MSc. from Cairo University of Egypt. Finally he finished his FRCS in Ophthalmology from Glasgow, United Kingdom. He became an Associate of the American College of Surgeons (AACS). He is a Consultant Eye Surgeon at the Egyptian Ministry of Health. He is a Consultant Eye Surgeon at AlWatany Eye Hospital (WEH) in Egypt and a shareholder at the same hospital.He is a Consultant Cataract and Refractive Surgeon and Anterior Segment Reconstruction.
He also has his own Eye Centre ( www.ashrafarmiaeyeclinic.com ) He is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS) and European Society of Retina (Euretina). A lot of international meeting and conferences as a speaker and lecture.

Cornea, Refractive, Cataract surgery and Anterior segment reconstruction

Baswati Prasanth, Specialist Ophthalmology has 10 years of vast experiences from various hospitals in India and other countries, completed her MS Ophthalmology from Armed Forces Medical College, Pune and Fellowship in Glaucoma and Anterior segment from Dr Shroffs Eye Hospital, New Delhi. She is the winner of A D Patwardhan Gold medal from university of Pune. She is the Director of Ophthalmology, Ahalia hospital, Abudhabi. She has published more than 15 papers in reputed journals and has been part of several clinical trials.

Phacoemulsification, small incision cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery

Irina Mocanu is a Romanian Ophthalmologist, graduated from the Bucharest Emergencies Eye Hospital. She has done a fellowship in University of Crete - Institute of Vision and Optics Heraklion, with Prof.Pallikaris. Also she did a fellowship in Advanced Micro incision Phaco emulisification in Instituto de la Vision, University of Montemorelos - Mexico, having Dr. Felipe A. Soria as a tutor. Currently, she is doing a research on the effects of intraocular foreign bodies with forensic implications. She works in her own private practice dedicated mainly to anterior segment cases.

Anterior segments

Donald S Minckler is a very well known personality in the field of Ophthalmology. He is currently serving as an Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of Glaucoma Service at University of California, Irvine, USA He also contributed his services as Chair, American Academy of Ophthalmology Skills Transfer Committee Jan 1986 – 1991 Editor-in-Chief, Ophthalmology, 1995 – 2002 American Academy of Ophthalmology Board of Trustees, 1995 – 2002 President, Glaucoma Research Society (International Congress of Ophthalmology), 1998-2003 American Ophthalmological Society, 1986-present. Senior Honor Award, AAO, 1997 & Lifetime Achievement Award 2007 Director, American Board of Ophthalmology, 1999 – December 2006 Chairman American Board of Ophthalmology 2006 Editorial Board, Cochrane Eye and Vision Group, January 08 - present PEER REVIEW PUBLICATIONS: Total 189 Symposia, chapters, editorials, abstracts, published symposia, manuals: 210

Glaucoma, Optic Nerve diseases and Ophthalmic pathology

Dr. Sunalp has provided state of the art ophthalmologic services in the San Joaquin valley for the last 30 years. His specialized training has given the community access to ophthalmic laser surgery using VISX and LASIK Excimer Laser systems, up-to-the minute cataract management using multifocal and toric intraocular lens implants; and glaucoma and diabetic eye care. He has developed innovative techniques to treat common eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy in a safe and effective manner. Though dedicated to professional services. Dr. Sunalp has also pledged time and resources to the community, providing eye examinations, and support to local charities such as CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) for Children and Visalia Veterans Committee.

Cornea, Lasik and etc

Dr. Selwa Al-Hazzaa is Consultant of Ophthalmology since 1993 at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSH& RC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Head of Ophthalmology since 1997 (first woman). She is Professor in the College of Medicine at Alfaisal University since 2011 (first woman), and Senior Clinical Scientist since March 2008 and Consultant in Genetics in the Research Centre of KFSH&RC since March 2009. She is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, since 2003 and was reappointed in 2006-2009 (first from the Middle East). In January 2007, she was appointed Senior Advisor to Minister of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In 1995, she was “The First Woman” appointed to the Medical Advisory Council, the strongest governing body of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Al-Hazzaa has published 38 international papers, 4 book chapters; the most important in Duane’s International Ophthalmology, on “Genetic Eye Diseases in Saudi Arabia (first ophthalmologist), and concluded 7 book reviews. She attended 209 symposia and presented 294 lectures in the USA, Europe, and the Middle East and was an invited international guest speaker in 52 lectures and an invited local speaker in 50 lectures. She is currently undergoing 7 research projects and has had over 243 international and national television, radio and newspaper interviews.

Genetic Eye Diseases, Retinal Diseases

Clinical Instructor in Ophthalmology, University of Illinois Eye & Ear Infirmary 1988-1990.Assistant in Ophthalmology, The Wilmer Institute, The Johns Hopkins Hospital 1990-1992.Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University, 1992-1995 Affiliate Scientist, Division of Neurobiology, Yerkes Regional Primate Center 1992-1995.Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco 1996-1997.Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 1997- 2007; Tenure April 2001.Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles Spring 2007 – June 17, 2007.Visiting Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of the Retina Service, University ofIllinois, Department of Ophthalmology, Chicago, July 2007 Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Retina Service, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, July 2008 – present. Licensure and Certification: Illinois Medical License, 7-31-07 to present California Medical License, 10-4-95 to present Illinois Medical License, 6-86 to 6-91 Maryland Medical License, 5-23-90 to 9-30-92 Georgia Medical License, 8-92 to 12-95

Retina and Aging EYE Care

Prof. J.T. Lin, PhD (1981), University of Rochester. He served as a Visiting Professor at National Chao-tung University and Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida, Founder & CEO of Nasdaq-listed companies, He is the Chairman & CEO of New Vision Inc. and a Visiting Professor at HE Medical University (China). He holds over 40 patents and is the inventor (US patents, 1992, 2000) of LASIK procedure using flying-spot scanning method and the solid-state UV laser. He has published over 55 book chapters and 70 SCI journal papers. He is WHO's WHO in Leading American Executives, Model of oversea Chinese Young Entrepreneur and Fellow of American Society of Laser Surgery & Medicine.

Laser treatments

Dr. Saba Al Rashaed, an ophthalmologist who has experience in handling eye diagnosis, surgeries and recommendations to help patients perform proper care for their eyes; has excellent skills in performing surgeries and giving treatments; values time and work management; practices effective organizational skills strategies for better coordination with peers; has ability to diagnose and perform tests. Dr. Rashaed responsibilities are to performed surgeries on patients who had disorders with their eyesight and required to have surgeries in order to be cured. Constantly participated in the training of residents, as well as fellows. I enthusiastically prepared and delivered didactic lectures, which were always highly rated. I am a dedicated researcher, rigorous when it comes to designing the research projects, as well as in implementing them. Dr. Rashaed has Scientific Publication of 30 and Scientific Posts of 66. Conducted research once a rare disease is encountered and consulted with the experts

Vitreoretinal Diseases,Diabetic Retinopathy

Professor of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University. Born in Cairo, Egypt. Joined Cairo University Faculty of medicine in 1977 and graduated with an excellent degree with honour and got residency in Cairo University hospitals (about 6000 beds). Ophthalmology department in Cairo university hospitals is considered as a referral center from all over Egypt. Thus, practicing ophthalmology since 1985. Head of ophthalmology department Misr University for science and Technology since 2015 with main interest in corneal infections and ophthalmology ultrasound. Education and teaching undergraduate and postgraduates is my hobby. Moreover interested in Research work and published a lot of national and international papers. Through my research achieved the patency of new topical drug for treating fungal and acanthamoeba keratitis from Academy of Scientific Research in Cairo August 2005. Attendance and participation by two researches in the 5th international conference of ocular infections Florida, U.S.A February 2010.Also, attendance and participations with a lecture about corneal infections in the first meeting of Arab forum in ophthalmology. An arbitrator by supreme council of universities in Egypt to evaluate research papers done by lecturers and assistant professors for promotion. Co-coordinator and lecturer for courses of ophthalmology at National Training Institute and chosen as Head of consultancy committee for training of ophthalmology doctors all over EGYPT by National Training Institute.

Corneal infections and ophthalmology ultrasound

Georgii Kliuiev has completed Odessa Medical Institute named by N.I.Pirogov in 1982 the speciality "Medical treatment". He is the specialist in the field of glaucoma, cataract, eyelid surgery and laser surgery. In 1982-2013 he has worked as an ophthalmosurgeon at the Filatov Eye Disease and Tissue Therapy Institute of Odessa. He is the Doctor of medicine from 1992. He is the chief of ophthalmology department in the Health Technology Ltd from 1994 till nowadays. In 2015 he has got the certificate in child ophthalmology. He has published 55 scientific publications and has 5 patents. He has been participated in many world ophthalmological conferences as a speaker. He has 35 years of varied experience in ophthalmosurgery and he has done more than 15 000 operations.

glaucoma, cataract, eyelid surgery and laser surgery

Dr. Qiu is currently Advisor/Chief Medical Officer at Profarma. Dr. Qiu is an accomplished ophthalmology physician, trained retinal surgeon, stem cell biologist, and ocular transplant specialist with over 20 years of international experience. She has acquired top tier “know-how” skills of ophthalmic therapeutic innovation, with proven track records of solving critical problems, turning around situations and maximizing development outcomes that are directly translated into shareholder value, capital saving and revenue profit. She had led scientific research in drug discovery, drug delivery and cell therapy, established and led scientific and medical advisory boards, and served as a strategic advisor to executives in large/small companies and US/Canadian governments. Tina’s strengths are in areas related to asset-based R&D strategic planning, early stage clinical translation (target profiling, efficacy/safety study design, and IND package review), late stage product medical/clinical strategy including study design, NDA review and regulatory labeling, and commercial medical affairs (KOLs leadership, medical communications & publication, and medical/sales training and support). She has a Medical Doctor degree (with honors) from Nanchang University, a PhD in Ophthalmology from National Sun Yat-sen University in collaboration with Sheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania followed by post-doctoral trainings at Boston University and University of Southern California. Tina has served as Chief Medical Officer at BetaStem Inc., Medical Consultant for Sucampo Pharma and Advanced Cell Technology, Senior Director of Pharmacology at Inotek Pharma, UK Project License Holder, and Program Leader at GlaxoSmithKline. She has developed, published and lectured across US, UK, Japan and China, and been featured at Scientific American and National Eye Research Center, UK.

Ophthalmic Innovation & Biotherapeutics

Dr Gyanendra Lamichhane is practicing ophthalmology since 8 years.He has completed his MD from nepal in 2009 in first class first position with Gold Medal.He has completed ICO fellowship in Retina from Gunma university japan and Phaco training from tottori university Japan.Till now he has done more than 20,000 sight saving surgeries .He is associate professor of opthalmology.He has already been director of one of the charitable hospital in Nepal. He has conducted more than 20 free Diabetic Retinopathy Screening camps .He has more than 8 papers published in national and international journals.He is life member of Nepal Ophthalmic society,All India Ophthalmic Society,Macular Society UK and Macular Disease foundation Australia.

Phacoemulsification, Diabetic Retinopathy and AMD

Dr. Alireza Heidari, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Chemistry. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees form California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management and also in Nanochemistry and Molecular Structure Theory. His research interests are Biophysical Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Biomolecular and Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modeling and Structure, Theoretical, Computational and Mathematical Chemistry, Ab initio and Density Functional Methods. He has participated at more than fifty reputed international conferences, seminars, congresses, symposiums and forums around the world as yet. Also, he possesses many published articles in Science Citation Index (SCI)/International Scientific Index (ISI) Journals. It should be noted that he has visited many universities or scientific and academic research institutes in different countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands, Russia, France, Swiss, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, South Korea, China, etc. as research fellow, sabbatical and volunteer researcher or visitor heretofore. He has a history of several years of teaching for college students and various disciplines and trends in different universities. Moreover, he has been a senior advisor in various industry and factories. He is expert in many computer programs and programming languages. Hitherto, he has authored more than ten books in Chemistry. Syne, he has been awarded more than three hundreds reputed international awards, prizes, scholarships and honors. Heretofore, he has multiple editorial duties in many reputed international journals. Hitherward, he is a member of more than one hundred reputed international academic–scientific–research institutes around the world.

Biophysical Chemistry, Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Theoretical Chemistry, Mathematical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modelling, Ab initio & Density Functional Methods, Molecular Structure

Ingrid Kreissig is currently a Professor at Department of Ophthalmology Univ. Mannheim-Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany. She is also serving as Adjunct Professor at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York. Her specialization includes, Posterior Segment of the Eye: St. Gall/Switzerland, Bonn/Germany, and New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center/USA. During 1979-2000, she has been the Chairman of Univ. Tuebingen/Germany. She has published more than 414 papers, those are been published in national and international journals of ophthalmology, basically on topics such as surgery of retinal detachment with long-term follow-up of anatomic and functional results, cryopexy histology, tumors, AMD, diabetic retinopathy, and intravitreal pharmacotherapy. She has also published many books.

AMD, diabetic retinopathy, and intravitreal pharmacotherapy.

Janardan Kumar holds a Ph.D. degree in chemistry under kind supervision of Dr. C. M. Gupta, ex-director, CDRI, Lucknow, India. In the United States, first he received postdoctoral training on motor proteins in the laboratory of Michael P. Sheetz, a lasker award winner, at Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina. He published his work on kinectin, a myocilin like protein, in Science (1995), and an abnormality in myocilin has been predicted to be involved in the pathogenesis of glaucoma.Prior to coming to Becker College, while a research assistant professor at Tufts University, Kumar engineered a new real time perfusion system used for the discovery of drugs to treat glaucoma. Presently, Kumar is chair of the natural sciences department, and is actively engaged in the advancement of course curriculum in microbiology, chemistry, and developing the biotechnology/biology major at Becker College.

glaucoma, microbiology and chemistry

He is currently the Chairman & CEO of New Vision Inc. (Taiwan) and Visiting Professor at HE Medical University (China). Editor in Chief for Medical Device Diagnosis and Engineer (MDDE). He served as a Visiting Professor at National Chao-tung University and Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida, Founder & CEO of Nasdaq-listed companies, He holds over 40 patents and is the inventor (US patents, 1992, 2000) of flying-spot LASIK procedure currently used in eye hospitals worldwide. He has published over 55 book chapters and over 150 peer review journal papers including 75 SCI-impacted papers. His awards include WHO's WHO in Leading American Executives, Model

refractive surgery, keratoconus, cornea, modeling

Dr. Fuxiang Zhang, MD, MA, completed his first ophthalmology residency training in China. He came to the USA in 1989 and completed his second ophthalmology residency training at Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan from 1994-1997. He has been a senior staff member at the Department of Ophthalmology, Henry Ford Health System since 1999. Dr. Zhang’s practice has focused on refractive cataract surgery and IOL monovision for the last 20 years. He has been frequently invited as an honorable or keynote speaker, and has been invited to be a guest editorial board member by numerous ophthalmology journals. He has been jointly invited by ASCRS and AAO to be in charge of the Breakfast with the Expert round table seminar at the American Academy of Ophthalmology since 2014. His clinical research and numerous publications in prestigious journals have been focused on refractive cataract surgery and IOL monovision.

Refractive cataract surgery and IOL monovision

Dr. Ritch completed his M.D. at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in 1972. He is the Shelley and Steven Einhorn Distinguished Chair in Ophthalmology and Chief of Glaucoma Services and Surgeon Director Emeritus at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai. He has co-authored or edited nine textbooks and over 1700 medical and scientific papers, book chapters, articles and abstracts. He has presented 700 lectures worldwide, including 45 named lectures and has received 58 awards and medals.

Glaucoma

Dr. Chaokai Chang, graduated from medical school of Kao-Hsiun University (1990), and Ph.D from South Calolina University (2011). His current positions include: Chairman and CEO of Taiwan Nobel Medical Institute, President of Taiwan Cataract and Refractive Surgery Society and Taiwan Micro Invasive Aesthetic Society; Board member of ROC Medical Laser Society, ROC Ophthalmology Society, and International Medical Health Care Promotional Society. Assistant Prof of Yuan -Pei University. Dr. Chang has over 27 years in cornea, refractive and cataracts surgery.

cornea, refractive and cataracts surgery.

Sergio Ozan completed his studies from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an optician and contact lens specialist and having enriched experience in the manufacturing of ocular prosthesis. Dr. Sergio is also associated with scientific societies and currently he is a scientific advisor for ocular prosthesis in APO (Association Professional de Optometras in Argentina). He is the precursor and creator of multi-perforated orbital implants i.e. JUMAT, first prosthetic sclera lens and expander of orbit osmotic hydrogel filling for microphthalmia. He is the director of CEPROC along with Ocular Prosthesis Division in Perfect Vision, Santiago, Chile. Dr. Sergio Ozan also developed the one hour customized ocular prosthesis method which is unique in Latin America.

Contact Lenses, Ocular Prosthesis